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Lunenburg selectmen postpone action on Town Meeting articles

By Katina Caraganis, kcaraganis@sentinelandenterprise.com

Updated:
04/03/2013 06:37:44 AM EDT

LUNENBURG -- Selectmen opted to defer making recommendations on the town warrant for the upcoming annual Town Meeting until next meeting because Town Manager Kerry Speidel will not have final figures for financial articles until then.

The warrant for Town Meeting, scheduled for May 4, includes more than 20 articles, and selectmen and Finance Committee members must make recommendations before Town Meeting on whether they support all financial articles.

The Finance Committee meets again Thursday night, when it plans to discuss the entire warrant and budget and make recommendations.

Selectmen Chairman Dave Matthews recommended postponing decisions on the warrant until next week to give Speidel more time to get numbers finalized.

The full board also voted to recommend to the School Committee that it hire a construction manager at-risk for its school building project. It's a process that allows the client of a project, in this case the district, to choose a manager before the design state is complete.

The construction manager is based on qualifications, and then the whole process is centralized under a single contract. The manager works with the chosen architect for the project to finalize the design, and guarantees the district a maximum price for the project.

If the final price comes in lower than projected, it is reimbursed to the district and the Massachusetts School Building Authority.

The construction manager also coordinates all of the subcontracting work.

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Matthews, who also serves on the School Building Committee, said moving forward with that idea will help streamline the process.

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